{"id":286291,"date":"2021-03-22T22:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=286291"},"modified":"2021-03-22T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:45:36","slug":"church-of-england-may-impose-racial-quotas-for-clergy-to-promote-anti-racism-leaked-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/church-of-england-may-impose-racial-quotas-for-clergy-to-promote-anti-racism-leaked-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Of England May Impose Racial Quotas For Clergy To Promote Anti-Racism: Leaked Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchurch-of-england-may-impose-racial-quotas-for-clergy-to-promote-anti-racism-leaked-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=286291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2840.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Church of England may impose racial and minority ethnic quotas for its clergy and institute new training to promote anti-racism, according to a leaked report.<\/p>\n<p>The report is slated to be given to the Archbishops\u2019 Council next week by the Church of England\u2019s anti-racism task force, which rolled out after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/church-of-england-officially-apologizes-for-racist-past.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apologized<\/a> for his denomination\u2019s alleged historical sins last year.<\/p>\n<p>The report is replete with ample recommendations, according to a copy that was leaked to journalist Douglas Murray at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-church-of-englands-new-religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Spectator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As The Spectator notes of the report in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>It is very big on quotas. Henceforth there should be \u2018One UKME (UK Minority Ethnic) clergy elected from each region\u2019. Something called \u2018programme cohorts\u2019 should have a minimum of 30 per cent UKME participation \u2018in order to build up pipeline supply\u2019. And in that happy bureaucratese at which the C\u2009of\u2009E excels, the church should develop an \u2018online module for anti\u2013racist learning programme\u2019. All shortlists will include \u2018at least one appointable UKME candidate\u2019 and where this does not occur, the \u2018recruiter\u2019 should provide \u2018valid, publishable reasons for failure\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The number of confessing Christians in the United Kingdom has plummeted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/07\/11\/atheism-islam-rise-uk-christianity-suffers-dramatic-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half in the past three decades<\/a>, in stark contrast to the country\u2019s rising number of Muslims and atheists. From 2012 to 2014, the Church of England hemorrhaged nearly two million parishioners, prompting Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, to predict the institution is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/church-of-england-one-generation-away-from-extinction-after-dramatic-loss-of-followers-10288179.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one generation away from extinction.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some English churches have gone so far as to install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/god-is-a-tourist-attraction-carnival-ride-erected-in-historic-english-cathedral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carnival, helter-skelter rides<\/a> in an attempt to attract visitors in recent years. Regarding what the puerile installations in his country\u2019s greatest cathedrals might portend for its national church, British journalist Peter Hitchens&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/god-is-a-tourist-attraction-carnival-ride-erected-in-historic-english-cathedral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in 2019: \u201cPortend? The tragedy has already happened. Set beside the C of E\u2019s abandonment of the 1662 Prayer Book and the Authorised Version of the Bible, and its collapse on the issue of lifelong marriage, a helter skelter is really pretty trivial.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.533762057878\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Portend? The tragedy has already happened. Set beside the C of E&#8217;s abandonment of the 1662 Prayer Book and the Authorised Version of the Bible, and its collapse on the issue of lifelong marriage, a helter skelter is really pretty trivial. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1THcWt0iKT\">https:\/\/t.co\/1THcWt0iKT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClarkeMicah\/status\/1165708459695857666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last June, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the Western church should rethink its historical depiction of Jesus Christ as a white man, even going so far as to consider removing overly Anglicized artistic representations of him. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/head-of-church-of-england-west-should-reconsider-its-depiction-of-jesus-as-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"27\">\n<p><em>Justin Welby, who was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral in March 2013, was asked if the \u201cway the western church portrays Jesus needs to be thought about again.\u201d Welby answered, \u201cYes, of course it does, this sense that God was white . . . \u201d He noted of churches around the world, \u201cYou go into churches and you don\u2019t see a white Jesus. You see a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle Eastern Jesus \u2014 which is of course the most accurate \u2014 you see a Fijian Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Welby continued, \u201cJesus is portrayed in as many ways as there are cultures, languages, and understandings. And I don\u2019t think that throwing out everything we\u2019ve got in the past is the way to do it, but I do think saying \u2018that\u2019s not the Jesus who exists, that\u2019s not who we worship,\u2019 it is a reminder of the universality of the God who became fully human.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/not-even-billy-grahams-alma-mater-is-safe-from-pearl-clutching-cancel-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Not Even Billy Graham\u2019s Alma Mater Is Safe From Pearl-Clutching Cancel Culture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">counter<\/span>\u2013<span class=\"il\">cultural<\/span>&nbsp;outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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